Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our imagination ...

Alexis Fajardo brings something new to the ancient tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf’s battle against the monster known as Grendel. “Beowulf,” an epic poem written roughly a thousand years ago in ...

Syfy has put in development Beowulf a drama series adaptation of the classic Old English epic poem that further examines the hero’s rise to power and his feud with the monster Grendel. The project, ...

The action you watch on screen in Beowulf certainly looks great, sounds great, and is truly enthralling, but it's a vastly different filmmaking experience that took years to develop into the version ...

From Samuel Harden Church's Beowulf. From years of use, people know this: Twitter can be a lot of noise. But sometimes, to get a tweet just right, to make it fit, I stop and consider the language. In ...

In 1926, J.R.R. Tolkien, one of fiction’s finest crafters of fantasy worlds, translated the 11th-century epic “Beowulf.” Nearly 90 years later, his son Christopher Tolkien is releasing an edited ...